Auditory Agnosia - Miracle Health Care And Wellness Center

Auditory agnosia or pure word deafness is the inability to process sounds. Again, just like in case of visual agnosia, the hearing quality is not affected. Rather, it stems from the disconnect between the sound processing region and the language centers in the brain. Patients’ reading, writing, and speaking abilities remain intact.

A sub-type of auditory agnosia, phonagnosia is a term that is used to specifically describe the inability to recognize familiar voices with this condition, you can recognize the spoken word or environmental sounds.